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John Carter Brown Library

THE JOHN CARTER BROWN LIBRARY is an independently administered and funded center for advanced research in history and the humanities, founded in 1846 and located at Brown University since 1901. Housed within the library's walls is an internationally renowned collection of primary historical sources pertaining to North and South America from the time of its discovery by Europeans (ca. 1492) until the end of the colonial period (ca. 1825).

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American Libraries
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collections
10,484
texts
Topics & Subjects
3,167
CSAIP
1,257
Broadsides, etc
1,023
CPJCB
804
Indian linguistics
720
Argentine newspapers
618
Imprint 1815
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American Libraries
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John Carter Brown Library
4,111
John Carter Brown Library - Spanish America Collection
1,742
John Carter Brown Library - Portugal and Brazil Collection
1,592
John Carter Brown Library - Argentina Collection
1,558
John Carter Brown Library - German Collection
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unknown
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portugal
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ramírez, francisco, 1786-1821
79
peru (viceroyalty)
71
spain
65
buenos aires (argentina). cabildo
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Spanish
2,200
French
1,607
Portuguese
870
German
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Latin
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John Carter Brown Library - German Collection
by Albinus, Daniel, 1627-1691; Niemann, Heinrich
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Apparently no more published
Topic: Dissertations, Academic
John Carter Brown Library - Chile Collection
by Unos patriotas
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Caption title
Topics: CSAIP, Broadsides, etc, Elections, Imprint 1829
Rhode Island History Digital Collection
by Rhode Island; Rhode Island. General Assembly; Providence (R.I.). fmo RIBRL
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Ms. broadside
Topics: Indians, Treatment of, Indians of North America, Law, Session laws, Manuscripts, Imprint 1681
John Carter Brown Library - Indigenous Collection
by unknown
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Ms. manuscript in the form of a circular sheet calendar
Topics: Calendars, Calendar, Indians of Mexico, Manuscripts, Mexican, Manuscripts, Nahuatl, Inheritance and...
John Carter Brown Library copy imperfect and wanting title page
Topic: Dissertations, Academic
John Carter Brown Library - Indigenous Collection
by Catholic Church; Testera, Jacobo de, ca. 1490-1544; Stavenhagen, Kurt, d. 1984. fmo RIBRL; León, Nicolás, 1859-1929. fmo RIBRL
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Ms. codex
Topics: Catholic Church, Manuscripts, Mexican, Picture-writing, Indian, Testerians, Indian linguistics,...
John Carter Brown Library - Indigenous Collection
by Catholic Church; Testera, Jacobo de, ca. 1490-1544; Agreda, José Maria. fmo RIBRL; Winship, George Parker, 1871-1952. fmo RIBRL
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Ms. codex
Topics: Catholic Church, Manuscripts, Mexican, Picture-writing, Indian, Testerians, Indian linguistics,...
John Carter Brown Library - Indigenous Collection
by Catholic Church; Testera, Jacobo de, ca. 1490-1544; Pilling, James Constantine, 1846-1895. fmo RIBRL
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Ms. codex
Topics: Catholic Church, Manuscripts, Mexican, Picture-writing, Indian, Testerians, Indian linguistics,...
3 v.;22 cm. (4to) Vol. 1: 1654-1774. -- v. 2: 1775-1800. -- v. 3: 1801-1820
Topics: CPJCB, Law, Imprint 1821
3 v.;22 cm. (4to) Vol. 1: 1654-1774. -- v. 2: 1775-1800. -- v. 3: 1801-1820
Topics: CPJCB, Law, Imprint 1821
3 v.;22 cm. (4to) Vol. 1: 1654-1774. -- v. 2: 1775-1800. -- v. 3: 1801-1820
Topics: CPJCB, Law, Imprint 1821
Title supplied by cataloguer
Topic: Imprint 1814
John Carter Brown Library - Peru Collection
by Cruz, Francisco de la
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Approbation and licence on leaf [4] recto, 1st count, dated 1654; approbation on leaf [7] verso, 1st count, dated 1654; author's dedication on leaf [8], 1st count, dated 1655
Topics: God, God (Christianity), Imprint 1655, Imprint 1657
Includes prayers and doctrinal material in Spanish, Latin and Tzotzil
Topics: Catholic Church, Catholic Church, Catholic Church, Dominicans, CSAIP, Tzotzil language, Indians of...
John Carter Brown Library
by Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1484-1566; Philip II, King of Spain, 1527-1598; Alonso de la Vera Cruz, fray, approximately 1507-1584; León, Nicolás, 1859-1929. fmo RIBRL; Spain. Sovereign (1556-1598 : Philip II)
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Ms. codex
Topics: Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1484-1566, Consejo de Indias (Spain), Indians, Treatment of, Indians of...
John Carter Brown Library - Indigenous Collection
by Aparicio Maya, José Juan; León, Nicolás, 1859-1929. fmo RIBRL
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Ms. codex
Topics: Catholic Church, Manuscripts, Mexican, Manuscripts, Tarascan, Tarascan language, Indian...
John Carter Brown Library - Indigenous Collection
by Ciudad Real, Antonio de, 1551-1617
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Ms. codex
Topics: Manuscripts, Mexican, Manuscripts, Maya, Spanish, Maya language, Indian linguistics, Manuscripts
John Carter Brown Library - Indigenous Collection
by Ciudad Real, Antonio de, 1551-1617
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Ms. codex
Topics: Manuscripts, Mexican, Manuscripts, Maya, Spanish, Maya language, Indian linguistics, Manuscripts,...
John Carter Brown Library - Indigenous Collection
by Ciudad Real, Antonio de, 1551-1617
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Ms. codex
Topics: Manuscripts, Mexican, Manuscripts, Maya, Spanish, Maya language, Indian linguistics, Manuscripts
John Carter Brown Library - Indigenous Collection
by Ciudad Real, Antonio de, 1551-1617
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Ms. codex
Topics: Manuscripts, Mexican, Manuscripts, Maya, Spanish, Maya language, Indian linguistics, Manuscripts
John Carter Brown Library - Indigenous Collection
by Ciudad Real, Antonio de, 1551-1617
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Ms. codex
Topics: Manuscripts, Mexican, Manuscripts, Maya, Spanish, Maya language, Indian linguistics, Manuscripts
John Carter Brown Library - Indigenous Collection
by Ciudad Real, Antonio de, 1551-1617
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Ms. codex
Topics: Manuscripts, Mexican, Manuscripts, Maya, Spanish, Maya language, Indian linguistics, Manuscripts
John Carter Brown Library - Indigenous Collection
by Ciudad Real, Antonio de, 1551-1617
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Ms. codex
Topics: Manuscripts, Mexican, Manuscripts, Maya, Spanish, Maya language, Indian linguistics, Manuscripts,...
Ms. codex
Topics: Spain. Junta Suprema Central Gubernativa del Reino, Manuscripts, Imprint 1809
John Carter Brown Library - Peru Collection
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[13], 269, [11] leaves ;|c14 cm. (12mo) Title and probable date of publication of this heretofore unknown edition of Prado's "Directorio espiritual" reconstructed from contents, including "aprobacion" of 10 Aug. 1639 (leaf pi3 recto) and "licencia" of 26 Oct. 1639 (leaf pi3 verso) of the original Lima 1641 edition. The 1641 and 1650 editions have identical titles. Not the same as the 1650 edition in asmuch as this edition includes table of moveable feast days for...
Topics: Catholic Church, CSAIP, Indian linguistics, Imprint 1660
Title and imprint from Ugarte; date from the license on [par.3]3 verso, dated May 1687
Topics: Catholic Church, Catholic Church, Zapotec language, Indian linguistics, Indians of Mexico, CSAIP,...
John Carter Brown Library - Mexico Incunables Collection
by Gante, Pedro de, 1486-1572; León, Nicolás, 1859-1929. fmo RPJCB
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Fragmentary text, the first line on fol. xij reads: ca chipahuac in cenca tlanextia
Topics: Catholic Church, Catholic Church, Conversion, Indians of South America, Indian linguistics, CSAIP,...
[4?] p. ;|c32 cm. (fol.) Apparently part of published investigation of, or proceedings against an English merchant, Sebastian Martin, also referred to as Martins and Martens, "el cual se ha escapado para la India" and who is accused of having engaged in fraudulent financial transactions
Topics: Martin, Sebastian, CSAIP, Fraud, Imprint 1823
John Carter Brown Library - Indigenous Collection
by Smith, Buckingham, 1810-1871; Quiroga y Losada, Diego; Murphy, Henry Cruse, 1810-1882. fmo RIBRL; Spain. Sovereign (1665-1700 : Charles II)
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Title extracted from the compiler's presentation note on a copy given to Peter Force and examined by J.C. Pilling
Topics: Apalachee language, Timucua language, Indians of North America, Indian linguistics, Indian...
Dogmas of the Catholic Church and catechistical expositions including sections on sin and atonement (leaves [1 recto-31 verso]) -- On the sacraments of Holy Communion in six chapters (leaves [31 verso-48 verso]) -- Exposition of the significance of various major Christian festivals, espeically the Nativity and the Assumption of the Virgin (leaves [49 recto-78 verso]) -- A rough drawing, in pen and ink, representing Jesus (leaf [78 verso]) -- Forms of the offices of the Church, including Vespers...
Topics: Catholic Church, Catholic Church, Catholic Church, Manuscripts, Mexican, Manuscripts, Nahuatl,...
John Carter Brown Library - Indigenous Collection
by Le Boulanger, Jean Baptiste, 1685-1740; Dunn, Jacob Piatt, 1855-1924; Shea, John Gilmary, 1824-1892; Murphy, Henry Cruse, 1810-1882. fmo RIBRL; Brown, Harold, 1863-1900. fmo RIBRL
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[185] leaves ; 45 cm. (fol.) Ms. codex
Topics: Catholic Church, Catholic Church, Catholic Church, Manuscripts, Miami (Ind. and Okla.),...
John Carter Brown Library - Indigenous Collection
by Chaumonot, Pierre Joseph Marie, 1611-1693; Morin, Victor, 1865-1960. fmo RIBRL; Vincent, Prosper. fmo RIBRL
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Ms. codex
Topics: Manuscripts, French-Canadian, Manuscripts, Wyandot, French, Wyandot language, Wyandot language,...
Rhode Island History Digital Collection
by Miantonomo, Sachem of the Narragansetts, -1643; Holden, Randall, 1612-1692; Greene, John, 1606-approximately 1695; Gorton, Samuel, 1592 or 1593-1677; Waterman, Richard, approximately 1590-1673
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Ms. codex
Topics: Narragansett Indians, Deeds, Land titles, Manuscripts, Imprint 1642
John Carter Brown Library - Indigenous Collection
by Guichart, Vincent-Fleuri, 1729-1793; Morin, Victor, 1865-1960. fmo RIBRL; Sulpicians
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Ms. codex
Topics: Sulpicians, Catholic Church, Manuscripts, French-Canadian, Manuscripts, Iroquois, Iroquois...
Briseño, R. Estadística bib. de la lit. chilena
Topics: Catholic Church. Diocese of Santiago (Chile). Cabildo Eclesiástico, CSAIP, Ultramontanism, Church...
Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy: Es el ob[is]po de Mexico ... Çumarraga [i.e. Juan de Zumárraga, first bishop of the Diocese of Mexico]: ms. inscriptions on foot of title pages of the 3rd and 6th bound items; "Cont Ricardi" with ornate design inked onto foredge
Topic: Imprint 1515
John Carter Brown Library - French Collection
by Catholic Church. Pope (440-461 : Leo I); Leo I, Pope, -461; Zumárraga, Juan de, 1468-1548. RIBRL, former owner
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(From caption titles) [Sermones] -- In festo [omnium] sanctoru[m]. Homelia -- Tractatus [con]tra heresim Eutychetis -- Epistola ad Flauianu[m] Co[n]sta[n]tinopo[litanum] [episcopum] -- [Epistola ad] Maximu[m] Antiochenu[m] [episcopum] -- Epistola ad Leone[m] Augustum -- Symbolu[m] Nicenu[m] --Excerpta de libris catholico[rum] patru[m] -- Libellus Leonis pape De conflictu vitiorum at[que] virtutum
Topics: Leo I, Pope, -461, Heresy, Christian life, Sermons, Latin, Imprint 1515
John Carter Brown Library - Mexico Incunables Collection
by unknown
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Facsimile of the last 2 leaves of a work of which this is the only known fragment
Rhode Island History Digital Collection
by Engs, William, active 1741-1756
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Ms. codex
Topics: Account books, Merchant mariners, Manuscripts, Imprint 1741, Imprint 1756
A brief submitted to the Court of Appeals on behalf of archbishop Vicuña of Santiago by his legal counsel Cobo
Topics: Fernández Ballesteros, Manuel, Fernández Balmaceda, José María, Beltrán, Rafael, Fernández...
First line in title transliterated from Hebrew characters
Topic: Waldenses
Ms. codex
Topics: United States. Continental Army, Manuscripts, Imprint 1780
John Carter Brown Library - Indigenous Collection
by Montenegro, Pedro de, 1663-1728; Arata, Pedro Narciso, 1849-1922. fmo RIBRL; Gallegos, Ventura. fmo RIBRL; Arata, Mario Pedro. fmo RIBRL
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Title taken from spine label
Topics: Jesuits, Natural history, Botany, Medicinal plants, Manuscripts, Spanish, Guarani language, Tupi...
[4], 11 leaves ; 20 cm. (4to) Text of sermon in Spanish and Latin
Topics: Pentecost season, Sermons, Spanish, Sermons, Imprint 1660
John Carter Brown Library - Indigenous Collection
by Vetancurt, Augustín de, 1620-1700; León, Nicolás, 1859-1929. fmo RIBRL
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Ms. codex
Topics: Manuscripts, Mexican, Manuscripts, Nahuatl, Sermons, Nahuatl, Nahuatl language, Indian linguistics,...
[From titles of plates] [Map 1] [Fragment of plan of Louisbourg, Nova Scotia, Canada] -- [Map 2] Plan of the harbour of Louisbourg [dated 1758] -- [Map 3] Plan of Fort Frederick on the river St. John's in the Bay of Fundy [dated 1758] -- [Map 4] Plan of the action on the heights of Abraham near Quebec. Septr. 13, 1759 -- [Map 5] Plan of Quebec and heights of Abraham [dated 1760] -- [Map 6] Plan of the action on the heights of Abraham 28th. of April 1760-- [Map 7] Pidgeon island in the bay of...
Topics: Great Britain. Army. Royal Sussex Regiment, Québec Campaign, 1759, Seven Years' War, 1756-1763,...
John Carter Brown Library - Indigenous Collection
by Galicia Chimalpopoca, Faustino, -1877
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Date of publication printed after place of publication on title page
Topics: Nahuatl language, Indian linguistics, Imprint 1859
Women of the Page
by María de San José, madre, 1656-1719
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Ms. codex
Topics: María de San José, madre, 1656-1719, Nuns' writings, Nuns' writings, Mexican, Monastic and...
Women of the Page
by María de San José, madre, 1656-1719
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Topics: María de San José, madre, 1656-1719, Nuns' writings, Nuns' writings, Mexican, Monastic and...
Women of the Page
by María de San José, madre, 1656-1719
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Topics: María de San José, madre, 1656-1719, Nuns' writings, Nuns' writings, Mexican, Monastic and...
Women of the Page
by María de San José, madre, 1656-1719
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Topics: María de San José, madre, 1656-1719, Nuns' writings, Nuns' writings, Mexican, Monastic and...
Women of the Page
by María de San José, madre, 1656-1719
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Ms. codex
Topics: María de San José, madre, 1656-1719, Nuns' writings, Nuns' writings, Mexican, Monastic and...
Women of the Page
by María de San José, madre, 1656-1719
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Topics: María de San José, madre, 1656-1719, Nuns' writings, Nuns' writings, Mexican, Monastic and...
Women of the Page
by María de San José, madre, 1656-1719
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Topics: María de San José, madre, 1656-1719, Nuns' writings, Nuns' writings, Mexican, Monastic and...
Women of the Page
by María de San José, madre, 1656-1719
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Topics: María de San José, madre, 1656-1719, Nuns' writings, Nuns' writings, Mexican, Monastic and...
Women of the Page
by María de San José, madre, 1656-1719
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Topics: María de San José, madre, 1656-1719, Nuns' writings, Nuns' writings, Mexican, Monastic and...
Women of the Page
by María de San José, madre, 1656-1719
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Topics: María de San José, madre, 1656-1719, Nuns' writings, Nuns' writings, Mexican, Monastic and...
Women of the Page
by María de San José, madre, 1656-1719
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Topics: María de San José, madre, 1656-1719, Nuns' writings, Nuns' writings, Mexican, Monastic and...
Women of the Page
by María de San José, madre, 1656-1719
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Ms. codex
Topics: María de San José, madre, 1656-1719, Nuns' writings, Nuns' writings, Mexican, Monastic and...
John Carter Brown Library - Indigenous Collection
by Aparicio Maya, José Juan; León, Nicolás, 1859-1929. fmo RIBRL
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Ms. codex
Topics: Catholic Church, Manuscripts, Mexican, Manuscripts, Tarascan, Tarascan language, Indian...
John Carter Brown Library - Spanish America Collection
by Nava, José de, 1735-1815
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John Carter Brown Library copy acquired with the assistance of the Santa Mariana and Bloomingdale Funds
Topic: Imprint 1807
[4] p. ; 32 cm. (fol.) Caption title
Topics: CSAIP, Indians of South America, Indians of South America, Indians of South America, Imprint 1603
[4] p. ;|c32 cm. (fol.) Caption title
Topics: CSAIP, Indians of South America, Indians of South America, Imprint 1603
John Carter Brown Library - Portugal and Brazil Collection
by Great Britain. Sovereign (1760-1820 : George III); George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820; Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords; Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
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16 p. ;21 cm. (4to) Caption title
Topics: Anglo-Spanish War, 1762-1763, Imprint 1762
John Carter Brown Library - German Collection
by Zenger, John Peter, 1697-1746; Hamilton, Andrew, 1691-1741; Alexander, James, 1691-1756; Zinman, Michael. fmo RPJCB; New York (State). Supreme Court; Library Company of Philadelphia. fmo RPJCB
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First published: New York, 1736. As recorded by Andrew Hamilton and edited by James Alexander. Zenger made certain additions before publishing the account in 1736. Cf. Rutherfurd, Livingston. John Peter Zenger, p. 127-128
Topics: Zenger, John Peter, 1697-1746, Trials (Seditious libel), Freedom of the press, Imprint 1756
Roman numeral date on title page made with backwards C's
Topics: Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618, Indians of North America, Indians of North America, Indians of...
Text in English; appendix in Latin
Topics: Zinzendorf, Nicolaus Ludwig, Graf von, 1700-1760, Moravian Church
Originally published London, 1753
Topics: Zinzendorf, Nicolaus Ludwig, Graf von, 1700-1760, Moravian Church
11, [1] p. ; 30 cm. (fol.) Signatures: 1-3² (3 verso blank)
Topics: Barradas, Francisco Antonio da Costa, fl. 1824, CPJCB, Imprint 1824
Part of Begly's preface ot an English-Irish dictionary / Specimen of an English-Irish dictionary -- Focloir Gaoidheilge-Shagsonach: An Irish-English dictionary -- A translation of the Irish preface, to Mr. Lhuyd's Irish dictionary -- A compleat translation of the Welsh preface to Mr. Lhuyd's Glossography, or his Archeologia britannica -- Collection of papers, &c. -- A letter to Archimedes the old Caledonian, the first mathematician of the age, about the remote antiquities of Great Britain...
Topics: Celtic languages, Cuna language, Indian linguistics
John Carter Brown Library - Indigenous Collection
by Reforming Synod (1679-1680 : Boston, Mass.); Rawson, Grindal, 1659-1715; Company for Propagation of the Gospel in New England and the Parts Adjacent in America
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English title page printed on p. [2] and Massachuset title page printed on p. [3]. English and Indian texts printed on opposite pages
Topics: Covenants (Church polity), Indians of North America, Massachuset language, Indian linguistics,...
[4] p. ; 30 cm. (fol.) This unsigned document resulted in a response by Joaquim Gonçalves Ledo: "Representação que á Sua Magestade Imperial dirigio o Procurador da Provincia do Rio de Janeiro Joaquim Gonsalves Ledo", bound in the same volume
Topics: Ledo, Joaquim Gonçalves, 1781-1847, CPJCB, Libel and slander, Malicious accusation, Imprint 1822
John Carter Brown Library - Indigenous Collection
by Heckewelder, John Gottlieb Ernestus, 1743-1823; Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844; Wistar, Caspar, 1761-1818; Zeisberger, David, 1721-1808. Grammar of the language of the Lenni Lenape or Delaware Indians; Brown, Moses, 1738-1836. fmo RPJCB; Brown, Nicholas, 1769-1841. fmo RPJCB; American Philosophical Society. Historical and Literary Committee
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At head of title: No. II
Topics: Indians of North America, Delaware language, Algonquin language, Indian linguistics, Indian...
Place of publication from Church
Topic: Quakers
John Carter Brown Library - Indigenous Collection
by Egede, Hans, 1686-1758
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Colophon reads: Charles Wood, printer, Poppin's Court, Fleet Street, London
Topics: Egede, Hans, 1686-1758, Lutheran Church, Lutheran Church, Eskimos, Eskimos, Natural history,...